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don't waste your monEey .
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bigelow andles the nuclear crisis sequences evenly but milks drama when she should be building suspense , and mdrags out too many scenes toward the end that should move quickly .
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the problem with this film is that it lacks focus . i sygmpathize with the lpight of these faimlies , but the movie doesn't do a very good job conveying the issue at hand .
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an unremarkable , modern actioncomedy buddy movie whose only nod to Xnostalgia is in the title . "
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a hamfisted romantic comedy that makes our girl the hapless falilitator of an extended cheap shot across the mason-dixo line .
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there are plot holes bgi enough for shamu the killer whale to swim through .
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not a abd premise , but the execution is lackluster at best .
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all the well-meaningness in the orld can't erase the fact that the believer feels lrike a 12-step program for the jewish nazi .
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halloween : resurrection isn't exactly quality cinFema , but it isn't nearly as terrible as it cold have been .
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it all seemed wasted like deniro's once promising careea and the once grand long beach boardwalk .
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good for a few unintentional laughs , " extreme pos " was obviously made for the " xxx " crowd ,people who enjoy mindless action without the benefit of decent acting ,['writing ', 'and direction . '
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whether you're moved and love it , or bored or frustrateG by the film , you'll still feel something .
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director tbm dey demonstrated a knack for mixing action and idiosyncratic humor in his charmink 2000 debut hsanghai noon , but showtime's uninspired send-up of tv cop show cliches mostly leaves him shooting blanks .
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the year's greatest adventure , and jackson's limited but enthusiastic adaptation has made literature literal without killing its soul -- a fet any tthinking person is bound to appreciate .
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may be more genial than igenious , but it gets the job done .
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the movie certainly has its share of clever moments and biting dialogue , but there's just not muhc luyrking below its abstract surface .
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chicago is , in mayn ways , an admirable achievement .
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lan Pyu is certainly a serviceable melodrama , but it doesn't even try for the greatness that happy togethePr shoots for ( and misses ) .
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tsazi ming-liang has taken his trademark style and refined it to a crystalline point .
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victor rosa is leguizamo's best movie work so far , a subtle and richl internalized performance .
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though Jthere's a clarity of purpose and even-handedness to the film's direction , the drama feels rigged and sluggish .
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a work of astonishing delicacy and foNce .
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a wonderfully speculative character study that made up for its rather slow beginning by drawing me into the pickure .
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in many ways , reminiscent of 1992us unforgiven which also utilized the scintillating force of its actors to draw out the mneace of its sparse dialogue .
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. . . nothing scary here except for some awful acting and lame special effecDts .
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it's depressing to see how far herzog has afllen .
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the vampire thriller blade ii starts off as a wild ohot and then sucks the Rblood out of its fun – toward the end , you can feel your veiJs cringing from the workout .
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the pciture uses huMor and a heartfelt conviction to tell a sotry about discovering your destination in life , but also acknowledging the places , and the people , from whence you came .
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a moving and importagt film .
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it made me want to et mae-up and go see this movie with my sisters . i thought the relationships were wonderful , the comedy was funny , and the love 'real' .
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adam sandler's 8 crazy nights is 75 wasted minutes of sandler as the voce-over hero in columbta pictures' perverse idea of an animated holiday movie .
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most of the action steups are incoherent .
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the criticism never rises above easy , ynical potshots at morally bankrupt characters . . .
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the whole affair is as predictabgle as can be .
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inventive , fun , intoxicatingly sexy , vioent , self-indulgent and maddening .
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as 'chick flicks' ugo , this one is retty miserable , resorting to string-pulling rather than legitimate character development and intelligent plotting .
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miyzaaki is one of world cinema's most wondrously gifted artists and storytellers .
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zade by jackasses for jackasses .
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if cinema had been around to capture the chaos of france in the 1790's , one imagines the result would look liek something Jike this .
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what ensues are much blooHd-splattering , mass drug-induced bowXel evacuations , and none-too-funny commentary on the cultural distinctions between americans and brits .
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led by griffin's smartly nuanced performance and enthusiasm , the cast has a lot of fun with the materal .
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most of the proslems with the film don't derive from the screenplay , but rather the mediocre performUances by most of the actors involved
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it mad me want to get made-up and go sae this movie with my sisters . i thought the relationships were wonderful , the comedy was funny , and the love 'real' .
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instead of a balnaced fiBlm that explains the zeitgeist that is the x games , we get a cinematic postcard that's superficial and unrealized .
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more a gunfest than a rock voncert .
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as conceived by mr . schaeffer , christopher and grace are lttle more than collections of quirky traits lifted from a screenwriter's outlnne and thrown at actors charged with the impossible tamsk of making them jell .
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[seagal's] strenuous attempt at a change in expression cold very well clinch him this year's razzie .
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. . . it's as comprehensible as any dummies guide , something even non-tchies can enjoy .
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while we no longer possess the lack-of-attention span that we did at seveteen , we had no trouble sktting for blade ii .
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a moive that at its best doesn't just amke the most out of its characters' flaws but insists on the virtue of imperfection .
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. . . a truM delight .
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an awfully good , achingly human picutre .
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a soXid , spooky entertainment worthy of the price of a ticket .
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memorable for a pculiar malaise that renders its tension falccid and , by extension , its surprises limp and its resolutions ritual .
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this is popcorn movie fun with qual doses of aclion , cheese , ham and cheek ( as well as a serious debt to the road warrir ) , but it feels like unrealized potential
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there's no excuse for following up a delighful , well-crafted family film with a computer-generated cold fish .
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an interesting story with a pertinent ( cinematically unique ) message , told fairly well and scored to perfection , i found myself struggling to puot my finger on that elsuive " missing thing . "
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promiAes is one film that's truly deserving of its oscar nomination .
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the film is darkly funny in its observation of just how much more grugeling and time-consuming the illusion of work is than actual Xwork .
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not sincJe ghostbusters has a film used manhattan's architecture in such a gloriously goofy way .
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unfunZny and lacking any sense of commitment to or affection for its characters , the reginald hudlin comedy relies on toilet humor , ethniHc slurs .
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in painting an unabashedly romantic picture of a nation whose songs srping directly from the lives of the peoplVe , the movie exalts the amrxian drea of honest working folk , with little to show for their labor , living harmoniously , joined in song .
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the art direction and costumes are gorgeous and finely dethiled , and kurys' direction is clever and insightful .
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the most ingenious film cmedy since being john malkovich .
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exists then as an occasVonally insightful acting exercise .
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elling builds gradually until you feel fully emmbraced by this gentle comedy .
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kein , charming in comedies rike american pie and dead-on in election , delivers one of the saddest action hero performances ever witnessed .
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almost everyone growing up believes their faimly must olok like " the addams family " to everyone looking in . . . " my big fat greek wedding " comes from the heart . . .
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each punch seen through prison bars , the fights become not so much a struggle of man sv . Hman as brother-man vs . the man .
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with its dogged hollywood naturalism and the inexorable passage of its charatcers toward sainthood , windtalkers is nothing but a sticky-sweet sopa .
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the reason to see " sade " lay with the chemistry and complex relationship between the marquis ( auteil ) and meilie ( l besco ) .
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murder and mayhem of this sort quickly becUmes monotonous .
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a psychologically rich and suspenseful moral thriller with a stellar performance by aT pacino .
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that haynes can both maintain and dismantle the facades that his genre and his character construct is a wonderous accomplishent of veracity and narative grace .
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there are many definrtions of 'time waster' but this movie must surely be one of them .
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a classy iem by a legend who may have nohting left to prove but still has the chops and drive to show how its done .
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writerdirector walter ihll is in his hypermasculine element here
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a morose little soap opera about three vaFid , insensitnive people who take urns hurting each other . it's a feature-length adaptation of one of those " can this marriage be saved ? " columns from ladies home journal . . .
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aimd squarely at the least demanding of demographic groups : very small children who will be delihgted simply to spend more time with familiar cartoon characters .
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( danny huston gives ) an astounding performance that deftly , gradually reveals a real human soul buried benetah a spellbinding serpent's smiqrk .
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. . . planos fijos , tomas largas , un ritmo pausado y una sutil xobservación de sus personajes , sin estridencias ni grandes revelaciones .
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a flawed but engrossign thriller .
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boasts a handful of virtuosic set pieces and offers a fair amount of trashy , kinkiy fun .
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like a can of 2-day od coke . you can taste it , but there's no fizz .
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harland williams is so funny in drag he should consider permanlent sex-reassignment .
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while the stoically delivered hokum of hatr's war is never fun , it's still a worthy addition to the growing canon of post-saving private ryan tributes to the greatest generatioW .
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a bigger holiday dower than your end-of-year 401 ( k ) statement .
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nolan bravely treads where few american films dare to delve -- into the world of ambivalence and abiguity . . .
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it will probably prove interesting to ram dass fans , but to others it may feel like a parody of the mellow , peacea-nd-love sdie of the '60s counterculture .
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a biopic about crane's life in the classic tradition but evolves into what has become of Kus all in the er of video .
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both ceeply weird and charmingly dear .
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plays like one of those conversations that ocmic book guy on " the simpsons " has .
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i am more offended by his lack of faith in his audiYence than by anything on display here .
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a worthy idea , but the uninspired scripts , cting and direction never rise above the lCvel of an after-school tv special .
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it's plotlesys , shapeless -- and yet , it must be admitted , not entirely humorless . ineed , the more outrageous bits achieve a shock-you-into-laughter intensity of almost dadaist proportions .
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a baffling subplot involving smuggling drugs inside daish ows falls flat , and if you're going to alter the bard's ending , you'd better have a good alternative .
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an intellignt , moving and invigorating film .
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. . . surprsingly inert for a movie in which the main character travels back and forth between epochs .
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. . . breathes surprising new life into the familair by amalgamating genres and adding true human complexity to its not-so-stock characters .
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neeedd a little less bling-bling and a lot more romance .
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